Temple's rationale for helping the cattle industry was pretty logical.
Humans remain omnivores, and no amount of PETA protests will kill the
meat industry. Given this, a person who loves animals should do what
they can to insure that these meat-animals are treated humanely.

A cow in a pen, led up to slaughter: If they're content in the pen,
and move unperturbed to slaughter, and are subsequently killed
instantaneously, there is no cruelty.

I love all animals, too. I was delivering phone books one summer in
the 70s, and had to walk a catwalk to an auction barn in the center of
the St. Paul stockyards. All the cattle I was walking over stared at
me the whole way. It was heartbreaking, but that's because I was
anthropomorphizing these animals, and they hadn't had the benefit of
her innovations.

What Temple Grandin is trying to do is make sure that there are no
suffering cows, pigs or chickens. That's laudatory, as far as I'm
concerned.

Contrast this to the boxes of dogs and cats sold in eastern markets.

I don't NEED to eat meat - but I and millions of other americans don't
have the resources to get a nutritionally sound diet based on
vegetables. We need to eat animals. As empathetic creatures, though,
we can insure that they are cared for humanely.

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